From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6539C1381F3 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AD88E0DCB; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86274E0C6A for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D68DC23C38 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:53:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:53:08 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 Message-ID: <20130928205308.547335bf@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5247128D.3030801@gmail.com> References: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> <20130927223916.GE23408@server> <52460D42.2080109@gmail.com> <20130928003220.GF23408@server> <20130928160159.GA4247@linux1> <5247128D.3030801@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2-71-gace330 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/CUnXdykxtpPnz6t7gMHzQIp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 0c37678f-12e5-42cc-b4bb-422e477a313a X-Archives-Hash: f4b901899b124436ed1c3593be0a5c5c --Sig_/CUnXdykxtpPnz6t7gMHzQIp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 12:31:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > One thing that you seem to be missing here. Before Gentoo, I used > Mandrake. It had a init thingy. It caused me much grief and is one > reason I left Mandrake. I also didn't like the upgrade process either > but one reason I chose Gentoo is no init thingy. I wanted to be rid of > that. Now, whether it is udev or not, here comes that stupid init > thingy just because someone doesn't want to put files where they should > be which is not inside /usr. Mandrake used an initrd, not the same as an initramfs, which is directly supported by the kernel. =20 > So, given my history with the init thingy, if I do use a init thingy and > it fails for whatever reason, I'll be installing something else. Good luck trying to find something else that doesn't use an init*. --=20 Neil Bothwick WindowError:01B Illegal error. Do NOT get this error. --Sig_/CUnXdykxtpPnz6t7gMHzQIp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJHM6QACgkQum4al0N1GQPnZwCfcRLfY2V5wj+o7tvo/sCGJFIP zFwAoLFy/XoussbYM4zamo2nTdAw36mF =Kqur -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/CUnXdykxtpPnz6t7gMHzQIp--